This is what happens when I get bored...
Mar. 28th, 2007 09:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellefliesI've been horribly lax about the posting of pictures, which I think ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
thekatebeyond has mentioned once or twice.
Amazingly enough I think this is the first time I've posted pictures that I've taken with my new camera on my lj. Everything else was from my Canon Powershot 350, which is okay... but not very good when you're a control freak and need to fiddle with every single setting (which my new Canon Rebel XTI lets me do. Yay control issues!)
ANYHOW. Moving on. I spent 40 hours in the little town of Dessau, Germany. It's about an hour north of Leipzig and an hour south of Berlin and it is exceedingly boring (sorry people of Dessau, but it really was boring!) It is also the home of the Bauhaus, and considering that I found that part of my art history class exceedingly boring as well, I'm not surprised that Dessau is the town that spawned it (although it's still a hell of a lot better then Dada).
This photo series is what you would call an exploration of Dessau through texture. I got so bored with all the East German Soviet Block construction (and the attempts by the people of Dessau to hide the ugliness of it all) that I just focused on texture and color rather then boxy buildings (not that the buildings aren't fascinating from an historical viewpoint, but visually... blah.)
But anyhow... This is for youthekatebeyond! Pictures!
And just so ya'll can see what I mean by the East German Block Building thing. The white buildings have been refaced, the brown just beyond are pretty standard for soviet constructed buildings. Pretty soon, they'll look just like their white counterparts. All newly done up to hide their unfortunate origins.
Although, if you want to see some pretty tweaky Soviet construction, go here. The buildings may have been boring, but the Soviets were rocking the daylights out of bus stops. Beats me as to why...
thekatebeyond has mentioned once or twice. Amazingly enough I think this is the first time I've posted pictures that I've taken with my new camera on my lj. Everything else was from my Canon Powershot 350, which is okay... but not very good when you're a control freak and need to fiddle with every single setting (which my new Canon Rebel XTI lets me do. Yay control issues!)
ANYHOW. Moving on. I spent 40 hours in the little town of Dessau, Germany. It's about an hour north of Leipzig and an hour south of Berlin and it is exceedingly boring (sorry people of Dessau, but it really was boring!) It is also the home of the Bauhaus, and considering that I found that part of my art history class exceedingly boring as well, I'm not surprised that Dessau is the town that spawned it (although it's still a hell of a lot better then Dada).
This photo series is what you would call an exploration of Dessau through texture. I got so bored with all the East German Soviet Block construction (and the attempts by the people of Dessau to hide the ugliness of it all) that I just focused on texture and color rather then boxy buildings (not that the buildings aren't fascinating from an historical viewpoint, but visually... blah.)
But anyhow... This is for you
thekatebeyond! Pictures!And just so ya'll can see what I mean by the East German Block Building thing. The white buildings have been refaced, the brown just beyond are pretty standard for soviet constructed buildings. Pretty soon, they'll look just like their white counterparts. All newly done up to hide their unfortunate origins.
Although, if you want to see some pretty tweaky Soviet construction, go here. The buildings may have been boring, but the Soviets were rocking the daylights out of bus stops. Beats me as to why...
